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Despite YIMBY claims, Americans don’t want to live like sardines crammed into tiny urban apartments; they want single family homes with space. Time for our politicians to get with the program

@RealPhilycheese @SlopHq Completely false. The largest land holder is the government at about 40% of all land.

@SDUnitedComm @SlopHq The majority of property in this country is owned by millionaires and billionaires. When that is no longer the case then we can talk about removing land and or property taxes

land value tax is the most elegant policy nobody talks about. tax the land, not the building. suddenly there’s no penalty for building up, no reward for sitting on an empty lot, and the parking crater becomes more expensive to maintain than the apartment building it’s been blocki

@pyradius @SlopHq LVT is just extractionary. It doesn’t increase affordability, is a further barrier to building housing, and will increase overall costs. So nothing good unless your a petty bureaucrat looking to raise cash

@SDUnitedComm @SlopHq Land already trades according to its highest and best use. The tax is 'capitalized' into a lower purchase price. chicagofed.org/publications/c…

The price of urban housing is set by the supply of LAND, as buildable land in a city is always in diminishing supply. Accordingly, land cost is 60+% of a housing unit’s price So the YIMBY narrative is patently false: you cannot build your way out of a land shortage.

The price of housing is set by supply and demand. The only way to durably reduce housing prices in high-demand, high-cost cities is to build lots of new homes. It worked in Tokyo. It worked in Austin. It can work everywhere else.

Despite a ridership decline, #MTS income is stable due to increased sales tax revenue. "The bad news on passenger revenue is mostly canceled out by good news on interest earnings and sales tax revenue, which are several million dollars over projections." #SANDAG could contribute even more revenue to the bus and trolley system if it reduced the number of multi-million $ studies churned out each year. #SanDiego government agencies don't have a revenue problem, they have a spending problem. sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/19/few…

@paulkruegersd We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.

New Revenue Streams to Save San Diegans from Budget Cuts – OB Rag obrag.org/2026/03/new-re…

@cayimby Prices went down because people left and sprawl attracted people to the suburbs. Austin population declined in 23-24. Meanwhile, surrounding Travis County built most of the metro housing increase (lots of SFH) on cheap land. Building in Austin proper didn’t lower prices

Pew: Austin added 120,000 homes in a decade—rezoning near jobs, cutting parking rules, and subsidizing affordable homes through bonds and bonuses. Rents fell 4% while US rents rose 10%. The biggest drops hit older, cheaper buildings where lower-income renters live.

@MidwestDeplore @AsadFromNYC In the cities, it is the shortage of land, not the shortage of housing, that drives prices up. You can build more housing, but they won’t get cheaper the more dense it becomes. Buildable land is finite, so it becomes proportionately more expensive the denser you build.

@AsadFromNYC a new working paper says it's increasing inequality, which is why liberals and rightwingers push simplistic solutions of supply. They oppose more government.

The left’s housing civil war is ending: "For a decade, progressives argued over whether greedy landlords or blocked construction caused the housing crisis. Zohran Mamdani and Nithya Raman say the answer is both." politico.com/news/2026/03/0…

We don’t have a housing crisis, we have a housing affordability crisis

Everyone keeps saying America has a “housing shortage.” It doesn’t. Divide total homes by population and you get this: We’ve never had more housing per person than we do right now. The problem isn’t supply. It’s prices.

🚨Exclusive on X : x.com: They want to tax you when you buy groceries. Tax you when you sell your home. Tax you through your paycheck. Tax your water. Tax your trash. Tax you for parking at Balboa Park. 9+ new taxes and fee increases between the county and the…

The Empty Homes Tax is punitive, likely unconstitutional, and data from other cities who tried it confirms it will do nothing to improve housing affordability. Gloria only wants more taxes because he refuses to balance the budget without extorting more taxes from San Diegans

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria and San Diego City Council member Kent Lee are trying to force us out of our cars! Their Climate Action plan wants 25% of us to commute by walking, 15% by bus or trolley and 10% of us by bike within 9 years. That's 700,000 residents!

In 2016, California ran a $1bn surplus. In 2026, it'll be a $26bn deficit. All while California GDP grew by 50%.

Democrats Keep Regulating Housing Out of Reach California doesn’t need more housing bureaucracy. We need more housing. The Democratic supermajority keeps making homes harder and more expensive to build—then spends billions on “affordable housing” projects people still can’t afford. That’s not affordability. #FixCalifornia calmatters.org/newsletter/rep…

CBC interview. "Vancouver tripled housing density in existing neighbourhoods. If aadding density led to more affordable housing Vancouver would have the cheapest housing in North America. It has the most expensive". Non market housing at scale now please. youtube.com/live/lvQqKEDiT…

The truth is that while #SanDiego has taken limited steps to control spending in the current budget cycle, expenditures have grown substantially over the past four years due to staffing increases and pay raises. youtube.com/watch?v=IpXZsI…

The SDCTA also opposed the #SanDiego Empty Homes Tax, citing concerns about the "legality of the tax and high levels of uncertainty about its potential benefits, ambiguity about whether tax dollars will be used to tackle the City’s ongoing structural challenges, as well as the lack of a Sunset Clause, which is a threat to long-term fiscal accountability." sdcta.org/policy-reports… sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/17/san…